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A scalable framework enables phenome-wide association of structural variants in biobank cohorts

The authors present KGGSV, a scalable and secure end-to-end framework that successfully harmonized 3.68 million structural variants across nearly half a million UK Biobank genomes to enable a large-scale phenome-wide association study, revealing thousands of significant SV-trait associations and unique structural risk loci independent of single-nucleotide variants.

Miaoxin Li, Wenjie Peng, Liubin Zhang, Tianci Huang, Chiyu Wei, Zhi Liu, Li Fang2026-08-06
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The m6A RNA methylation exerts a neuroprotective function by regulating the expression of α-synuclein

This study demonstrates that elevated m6A RNA methylation exerts neuroprotective effects in Parkinson's disease by recruiting YTHDF2 to degrade α-synuclein mRNA, thereby reducing α-synuclein levels, mitigating neuronal apoptosis and mitochondrial dysfunction, and improving motor and cognitive impairments in animal models.

Xuechai Chen, Tianyuan Zhao, Fangfang Zhang, Yuanyuan Ran, Jinyan Duan, Juan Wang, Zongjian Liu2026-08-06
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Early-life Staphylococcus epidermidis infection disrupts neuronal primary cilia number and signaling networks in the developing hippocampus

This study demonstrates that early-life *Staphylococcus epidermidis* infection disrupts hippocampal development in neonatal mice by altering neuronal primary cilia density and remodeling associated signaling networks, thereby providing a mechanistic link between neonatal infection and impaired brain maturation.

Maryam Ardalan, Sofia Rasmusson, Marida Canonero, Sahar Soleimani Sani, Pernilla Svedin, Seyedeh Marziyeh Jabbari Shiade (…)2026-08-06
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Alpha-synuclein targets retinal rod ribbon synapse by disrupting synaptic vesicle dynamics and mitochondrial integrity: Reversal by 40 Hz green-light flicker

This study demonstrates that pathological alpha-synuclein selectively disrupts retinal rod ribbon synapses by impairing synaptic vesicle dynamics and mitochondrial integrity, leading to visual deficits in Parkinson's disease models, which can be effectively reversed by 40 Hz green-light flicker therapy that clears alpha-synuclein aggregates and restores synaptic function.

Tao Xu, Xiangyu Li, Tongyao Wang, Xiaoqing Zhang, Zhaoxia Sun, Dandan Shao, Jianwei Zhang, Yuting Yang, Zunjie Xiao, Yue (…)2026-08-06
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Graph-Regularised Multi-Omics Autoencoders Improve Stability and Clinical Coherence of Breast Cancer Patient Embeddings

This study demonstrates that incorporating a protein-protein interaction network-based Laplacian smoothness term into a graph-regularised denoising autoencoder significantly enhances the stability, geometric coherence, and clinical relevance of unsupervised multi-omics breast cancer patient embeddings compared to standard unstructured models.

Habiba El Keraby, Hamza Zidoum, Maha Bouslimani2026-08-06
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Multivariate soil–microbial covariation and constrained recognition of fungal-dominated community-state extremes using Evidence- Constrained Residual Fusion

This study demonstrates that multivariate soil physicochemical conditions covary with a fungal-dominated microbial community state in northern China and evaluates the Evidence-Constrained Residual Fusion (ECRF) method, which achieves high balanced accuracy in identifying community extremes using combined soil and spatial predictors, though its incremental performance over a transparent anchor model is modest and dependent on data partitioning.

Pengyu Zhao, Geng Liu, Yujing Li, Xiaodong Zhao, Donghui Zhang2026-08-06
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EpiNet: A multilayer integrative atlas of the human epigenetic regulatory network reveals principles of complex assembly, domain modularity, and lncRNA scaffolding

This study introduces EpiNet, a multilayer integrative atlas of the human epigenetic regulatory network that reveals the system's hierarchical, modular organization and non-random assembly principles—highlighting WDR5 as a central hub, recurrent Pfam domain signatures, and lncRNA scaffolding—through comprehensive network analysis of curated protein, complex, domain, and lncRNA data.

Amine BOUGARNE2026-08-06